Ramblings of General Geekery

The last week has been about packing everything on the ground floor away into storage to make way for a renovation… behold, half of my TTRPG, comics, and board games collection, shamefully hidden in boxes! 😓

A storage locker full of boxes

The teenager and I finished Split Fiction yesterday (on PS5) and it was such a great run! I was legit laughing-out-loud in some of the side-plots. Highly recommended, with a good friend or family member sitting on the couch next to you. Thanks and congrats to Hazelight & the whole dev team.


The fluffy good boy got a piece of wood stuck in its mouth again… the removal operation was a success but he needs to keep his emotional support ball for a bit longer. Recovery is important!


Since we came out of the cinema I’ve been singing “FANTASTIC FOUUUUU-UUUUR!!!” over and over at random intervals and I think my kids are now fed up with it so yeah it was a fun outing.


The funny thing to me about the new South Park is that the series always made fun of everyone, but its audience skews conservative because right-wing assholes are so oblivious to it, only seeing the jokes about woke people or whatever. To me, the new episode just seems par for the course.


The chocolate subscription package was a bit late this month but yes it arrived, and we are well on our way through it!


Fuck off Discord. I don’t want to do “quests”, get “orbs”, click on “crumfibs” to collect “wizamags” or whatever the fuck you’re going to invent next to “drive growth and engagement” or something. I just want text & video chat, plus a simple way to pay for it.

A screenshot of the announcement for "Discord Orbs"

A week ago I setup AdGuard-Home on my home server. After a few days trying it via my laptop, I enabled it by default for all devices connected to our Wi-Fi… let’s see if the rest of the family notices!


You know that action scene cliché where the hero is chased by a large creature and he escapes by passing between two large trees and the creature gets stuck? Anyway my dog was running behind me with a large stick and I needed to feel like an action hero. Totally worked!